It's that time of the month - #6degrees again. Read about it here and join in. Play the animation and…
As of last week, the only thing I knew about Agnes Smedley was that The Feminist Press had reissued her…
The November #6degrees is freestyle. Instead of everyone starting in the same place with the same book, each participant starts…
And the #1956Club is open for business and this time I'm joining and you can too.. I'm old enough to…
Long before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, bookish teens had Iris Murdoch. As the poet Philip Larkin…
This is actually a story about books but somehow the schools took over. It does start with the books -…
In September we heard Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Oprah Winfrey at the Apollo in NYC. The topic was his…
Scooterons-nous vite. It's Back to School with Angela Brazil Long before Harry Potter - and indeed long before all those…
It's always fun when someone you know - a friend - has a book published. Here's Three Sheets to the…
Just over 20 years ago now a teacher walked into my office and said that he had just found a…
When intelligence officer Arthur Marshall was on the beach at Dunkirk in 1940 he turned to the work of Angela…
Novelists and film makers often struggle to find the right period details to anchor their work in a particular era.…
The sandwich was no comfort, it was a pale limp thing a long way from the déjeuner sur l'herbe of her…
Buy local. If you live in a city, town or village you probably appreciate the local amenities. These include the…
I once worked in a school where the librarian arranged the non-fiction by the color of the spine. It made…